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Expanded Mental Health Services Won’t Stop Mass Shootings
meganwildhood
  • Jun 25
  • 9 min

Expanded Mental Health Services Won’t Stop Mass Shootings

First published by Mad in America In the 23 years since the Columbine High School massacre, the school shooting in an affluent, formerly...
Instructions for How to Live My Life
Megan Wildhood
  • May 1
  • 1 min

Instructions for How to Live My Life

Published by Heartwood INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE if I should die. Use resistance as formaldehyde. Refuse to accept the fact of...
Modern Entertainment
Megan Wildhood
  • Apr 28
  • 4 min

Modern Entertainment

First published by Literally Stories The man who pit this roof against rain, his best friend and owner of the final store in town, the...
Clay
Megan Wildhood
  • Apr 15
  • 1 min

Clay

First featured in the Doubleback Review Clay When we played all those blue games near the highway, Mom didn’t stop us at first, though...
Will Smith's Apology:"Love Will Make You Do Crazy Things"
Megan Wildhood
  • Apr 14
  • 4 min

Will Smith's Apology:"Love Will Make You Do Crazy Things"

First Published in EQ Iris Dating Even if you didn't watch the Oscars (as I did not), Will Smith smacked Chris Rock and then swore at him...
Love in the Injustice Age
Megan Wildhood
  • Apr 10
  • 2 min

Love in the Injustice Age

First featured in the Gyroscope Review Love In The Injustice Age (published in the Fall Issue of Shantih Journal [Oct. 6, 2018]) is when...
"We Were on A Break!" Is there such a thing as a break?
Megan Wildhood
  • Mar 31
  • 4 min

"We Were on A Break!" Is there such a thing as a break?

First published by EQ Iris Dating You're likely familiar with the line in the '90s show Friends where Rachel is furious with Ross for...
"Your Disability Doesn't Define You" is not an encouragement
Megan Wildhood
  • Mar 19
  • 4 min

"Your Disability Doesn't Define You" is not an encouragement

First published by EQ Iris Dating I'm not sure how common it is for others, but I've experienced receiving the "encouragement" your...
Financial Fitness Did More for My Mental Health Than Therapy
Megan Wildhood
  • Mar 16
  • 6 min

Financial Fitness Did More for My Mental Health Than Therapy

First Published on HealthyRich A week before I turned 30, I went to a new counselor. I’d been to therapy before — when I was in high...
With the Wash On Our Hip
Megan Wildhood
  • Mar 4
  • 1 min

With the Wash On Our Hip

First Published in Moist Poetry Journal With the Wash on Our Hip We are bigger when we’re born, but the past is not a prologue. When we...
Healing is So Small
Megan Wildhood
  • Mar 2
  • 1 min

Healing is So Small

First Published in Moist Poetry Journal Healing is So Small The ocean is a seed on a low, coughing land and what does that mean what does...
How To Tell if You're Being Treated like a Charity Case
Megan Wildhood
  • Feb 25
  • 4 min

How To Tell if You're Being Treated like a Charity Case

First Published in EQ Iris Dating As a latecomer to dating, I wish someone had explicitly told me that people have different goals for...
Curated
Megan Wildhood
  • Feb 20
  • 31 min

Curated

First published by Punt Volat “Librarians and archivists—not to mention our beloved curators and art historians—help us grasp the...
"Gaffes Will Be The Glory", "And You Are Free"
Megan Wildhood
  • Feb 20
  • 3 min

"Gaffes Will Be The Glory", "And You Are Free"

First Published in Roi Fientantor Gaffes Will Be The Glory To err is human, to something is divine. I could Google it. But I have a...
The Impacts of Telling Disabled Daters to "Just be Happy being Single"
Megan Wildhood
  • Feb 18
  • 4 min

The Impacts of Telling Disabled Daters to "Just be Happy being Single"

First published by EQ Iris Dating If you've spent time in the dating world, you've likely heard the advice to "just be happy being...
The Rollicking Crowd is Holy
Megan Wildhood
  • Jan 29
  • 1 min

The Rollicking Crowd is Holy

First published with Ancient Paths One has deep-set fear like her mothers. One carries the dreams and lashes of his fathers. My ankles...
Dating While Disabled During and After Covid
Megan Wildhood
  • Jan 10
  • 2 min

Dating While Disabled During and After Covid

First Published on EQ Iris Dating If you're disoriented just trying to navigate regular life, you're not alone. It's not just the level...
Can Anything Good Come Out of Therapy?
Megan Wildhood
  • Jan 7
  • 7 min

Can Anything Good Come Out of Therapy?

First published on Mad in America. I used to think therapy could be beneficial if only you went through the trials of finding a good...
Oh. There is No Going Back
Megan Wildhood
  • Oct 1, 2021
  • 1 min

Oh. There is No Going Back

Originally Published in the Bacopa Literary Review "Oh. There Is No Going Back" came to me in an instant, nearly whole, on the day in...
Dating for the First Time in your 30s
Megan Wildhood
  • Jan 25, 2021
  • 4 min

Dating for the First Time in your 30s

Originally published on EQ Iris Dating You may feel behind. You may feel clueless. You may feel frantic. You may feel like no good people...

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